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Textures - 2.2.0b4

implementation of TeX/LaTeX for math typographical settings

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Selected Version: 2.2.0b4
Release Date: 2007-12-04
License: Beta
Downloads (version 2.2.0b4): 387
Downloads (all versions): 13,665
Price: $99 & up

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Textures is a programmable desktop publishing system for Macintosh. An interactive, integrated implementation of the TeX typesetting language, Textures is most commonly used for producing scientific articles and textbooks. Textures is also an extraordinary tool for fine typography, database and catalogue publishing and automated document production.

TeX, the typesetting engine of Textures, is an extremely powerful, versatile, programmable typesetting language created by Stanford University's Donald Knuth. Especially designed to automatically reproduce the quality of fine handset type, TeX is equally at home whether it is typesetting complex math and scientific notation, processing thousands of pages of mailing labels, or producing complex, book-length or even multi-volume works. TeX is a markup language, like HTML, that adds tags to ordinary text to identify parts of the document's structure.

What's new in this version:

  • Reliability improvements, to correct a handful of cases in which Textures could crash. (Although we are not yet ready to reinstate our offer of cash prizes for reproducible crashes, Textures has proven to be generally reliable in regular use.)
  • Classic Textures typeset material is by default no longer opened if it exists, as this proved to be confusing. If desired, this can be reenabled by a defaults command, see Preferences in Old News, below.
  • Classic Textures 2.1 upgrades to Textures 2.2: We have reached the point in the development of native Textures where we believe that the large majority of current Classic Textures documents are reliably supported by native Textures, so that all Classic Textures users can switch to the current beta version with full document functionality1.
  • Therefore, although this 2.2.0b4 beta version will continue to be freely available to Classic Textures 2.1 owners, to activate future development releases of Textures 2.2 it will be necessary to purchase a new activation key at an upgrade price. The upgrade price is initially set at $99 (US); it is likely to increase in the future as development progresses. Upgrade keys can be purchased directly from within Textures, with payment via Google Checkout.
  • We remember, with gratitude, that many of our customers have purchased upgrades and new copies of Textures during the development period of the last five years, and that we promised to credit those purchasers toward the cost of the upgrade to Textures 2.2 when it became available. We believe that our automatic upgrade process will correctly reflect this credit and offer a free or reduced price activation key where appropriate; should this not appear to be the case, we will be happy to review individual cases and make corrections if necessary.
  • 1[There are two cases, HTML links and PostScript primitive inclusions, which are not supported in the current beta; some HTML facilities will be available soon, but general PostScript inclusions are not likely to ever be supported because the printing model is no longer PostScript.]

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.3
  • Mac OS Classic

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Textures CommentaryFlashmode and PDF scrolling - Version: 2.2.0b11, 8/28/2009 10:14AM PST

RonWW
I have used classic (OS 9) Textures for years and have recently begun to use the new OS X version on an Intel Mac with OS 10.5. I was new to LaTeX when I began to use classic Textures. Because I made lots of errors, Flashmode and the Stoplight were essential features.

I am happy with the new version in most respects; Flashmode certainly is fast. However, scrolling through the typeset (PDF) window in the new version is different. It can only display one page at a time. In particular, when what I am working on reaches the bottom of one page, I cannot display the bottom of that page and the top of the next at the same time. This is very annoying.

Apparently, this affects Flashmode. It works great within a page, but when I reach the bottom of a page, the PDF window continues to display the previous page when what I am entering is on the next page. If I hit page down, the new page is displayed, but the previous one is not. Usually, this is right in the middle of a sentence!

In classic Textures, you can display the bottom of one page and the top of the next simultaneously, and Flashmode works properly. There is nothing inherent in PDF that prevents scrolling in the desired manner, and I have another LaTeX text editor (TeXShop) that does so.

Please bring back the way scrolling and Flashmode work in classic textures.
I will withhold awarding stars for now.
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Textures ReviewExcellent progress - keep going! - Version: 2.2.0b11, 8/18/2009 11:09AM PST

Kilohoku
I used TeXtures extensively in the past under OS 9, and as of this version there is more than enough in the new version to get me to upgrade. The speed is excellent, flash mode works like a dream and I only miss the "go to error" and "go to line" features to be completely happy with it.

Those who have not tried this but who are in fact power users of TeX and need it to be fast, trouble-free, easy to install and user-oriented for large-scale production work should try this. Once it gets out of beta I expect it to be the TeX installation of choice for those who need all of the above features. (Not knocking the freeware implementations, but those who were power users of TeX in the past and who had gotten used to the feature set of TeXtures will know what I am talking about in terms of what it brings to the table.)
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Textures ReviewGood release of an excellent authoring tool (Version 2.2.0b11) - Version: 2.2.0b11, 8/17/2009 03:11PM PST

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cantrell
I've used Textures to create a book, many manuscripts, and thousands of lecture slides. For me, Textures is an indispensable tool. This release adds to Textures' functionality. The one feature that I need and that isn't in 2.2.0 yet is support for hyperref.
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